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The Residents: "Not Available" CD Review (MVD Audio) Friday, May 20 After shut its doors last 8:00pm Black Skies summer, The Residents' back catalog releases Thursday, June 30 have been coming out on MVD Audio. The 8:00pm Creation's End / Suspyre label issued (originally Showing events until 7/31. Look for more released in 197 4) earlier this year and followed this up with an extended version of Not Available (recorded in 197 4 but not released until 197 8). This new release of Not Available extends the disc's original running time from 35 minutes to 42 minutes by including pieces of songs that were edited out of the original Events show n in time zone: Eastern version. Time

Not Available is The Residents' first concept CONTACT INFO. and the disc contains four long songs along with a shorter "Epilogue" which tells the M IKE story of a dark love triangle. The liner notes Contact me at: Mike.BrooklynRocks at describe this release as an exercise in group therapy: " By enacting this pseudo drama within a psycho Gmail . Com

drama, the internal conflict, still not completely understood by all of the participants, became much VIEW MY COMPLETE PROFILE more clear, as the player characters instinctively acted out their roles. The love triangle between Edweena, Porcupine and Catbird became obvious ("Can two be more than three?") as well as Remus's role as the distant and objective commentator ("The aching and the breaking are the BLOG ARCHIV E making of a soul."). The purpose of the Enigmatic Foe was of course still unclear when the rehearsals ▼ 2011 (148) began, but once the Porcupine's breakdown was known ("He thought the end was overdue, but day ► May (11) broke him instead..."), the role of the noble Foe, as Porcupine's stand-in for the operetta's climatic ▼ April (21) duel scene, became clear. The Hitchers - "Tees Valley Deadbeats" CD Review (... As the faux piece reached its peak, the trio - two holding pistols while the third hid in a bush - came to a realization that the lovely young Edweena had eloped with the independently wealthy and no Country Mice Release Second longer uninvolved Uncle Remus. At this point, the tension, previously thicker than frozen Free Download from For... mayonnaise, was shattered by the Porcupine, emerging from the shrubbery to paraphrase The Felice Brothers: "Celebration Shakespeare ("To show or not to be shown..."). Florida" CD Revi... David Bowie - "Toy " CD Review With illusions of love shattered, the three were then able to forgive, embrace and even welcome the (No Label) traitorous Remus back to the fold, once he had returned from his less than blissful honeymoon. " PALEO: Iowa Indie-Folk Musician Plays Two Local Sh... This release shows a striking maturity in the band's songwriting over Meet the Residents as the pieces Karen Rockower Plays Cake Shop on Not Available flow together with a dark, discordant surrealism. The music ranges from orchestral on Wednesday, April... to avant-jazz no wave and there are a number of "songs" within songs which are often separated by garbled and twisted vocals. This is a work of demented genius and one can hear how these songs EULA: Live Download and served as a 'jumping off' point for later-day tracks like "Walter Westinghouse" (from ). Photos from Show at Bruar ... The Trews: "Hope & Ruin" CD …blogspot.com/…/residents-not-availa… 1/2 5/20/2011 The Residents: "Not Available" CD Revi… The added seven minutes on this extended edition adds a noticeable color to each of the songs and Review (The Trews Reco... makes this reissue worth picking up, even if you already own a copy of Not Available . Tommy Bolin -"Teaser Redux" CD Review (Samson Reco... Links : Noel Redding - "The Redding The Residents Experience" DVD Review... POSTED BY MIKE AT 10:06 PM Bobby Birdman Announces New LABELS: CD REV IEW , M V D AUDIO , RALPH AMERICA , THE RESIDENTS 7 " // NY C Show with Y A... The Handsome Men Make Their NY C Debut at Arlene's ... Newer Post Home Older Post Holy Grail, Cauldron and Wizardry Play Union Pool ... EY EHATEGOD: "Live" DVD Review (MVD Visual) The Residents: "Not Available" CD Review (MVD Audi... Jeffrey Lee Pierce: "Anarchic Blues - Live In Slov... Pentagram - "Last Rites" CD Review (Metal Blade) EULA Plays Record Release Show at Bruar Falls on S... Jeremy Jay : Stream "Dream Diary" / Disc To Be Rele... High Horse - CD EP Review (w/ members of The Necro... Hammer No More The Fingers: J. Robbins Produced In...

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